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Show BANDITS PUT ON "SHOW" TO LURE THEIR VICTIMS Bright Mexican Crooks Improve Im-prove Manner of Victimizing Vic-timizing Public. Mexico City. Even out of the prisons pris-ons and "colonies of exiles." like Tres Marias islands in tlie Pacific ocean off the const of Mexico, come Improvements Improve-ments in the manner of victimizing the public. Out of the latter penal colony some two months ago came two bright crooks, Juan Rodriquez and Jose Torres, who had seen the Inside of several Mexican carcels, including the famous city prisoD "Belem" and the penitentiary of the federal district. They had both worked as electrical helpers on the islands and were in terested in moving pictures. When they were let out as "reformed" the came back to their old haunts Id tlie Mexican capital, where they acquired an old-fashioned magic lantern and some slides. With these they went into the show business on their own account out on the lonely road be- Ik Cut Up the Most Extraordinary Capers. tween Mexico City and the mining town of Pachuca, capital of the state of Hidalgo, with strictly night functions. func-tions. Extraordinary Capers. Some two weeks ago travelers by auto along the Pachua highway saw visions that made them feel sure that the last drink they took was one too many. An old woman riding a broom stick danced about through the air and cut up most extraordinary capers. Brownies and pigmies appeared as if by magic and disappeared and other characters replaced them upon the scene always on different nights. And all appeared through phosphorescent light. The news spread rapidly that the spooks had taken to haunting the Pachuca highway. Incidentally, there were numc.ous holdups of auto parties, par-ties, but the two shows were not connected con-nected In the minds of the passengers until government police agents caught Rodriquez and Torres in the act of pulling off their show. Bread and Water. From the rocky side of a cut in the road, well hidden by boulders and trees, they cast the pictures of their slides, all previously covered with phosphorus, and as they cast them they moved the lantern about, causing the characters in the pictures to cut up the jiost extraordinary capers. The people of the countryside have quit "seeing things" since Rodriquez and Torres recently accepted the government Invitation to lodge and dine at the city's expense. But the tradition of the spooks will go down as history in the legendary lore of the Indians along the lonely Pachuca road. |